Hah, chump. I have 34 half dollars!

There are Money Market and similar accounts which act like checking accounts but have interest rates like high yield savings accounts. They typically have a minimum balance of like $5k or more so if you have a large sum of money flowing through the account each month you can still get the yields but an unexpected pileup of bills out of order doesn't cause declined transactions

I'm convinced any excess I get my house or car know about and conspire to drain it as fast as possible. They'll fail even when they worked completely fine before I had that money.

Looks like you got a nice $2k bonus... be a shame if this radiator suddenly burst and even the mechanics can't explain why. Must have been a factory defect.

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Is that something for very excited people with a speech impediment? 🤔

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No evidence that Bade “ demanded “ one that expensive though.

For some reason, I read that as "15kg ring".

Although, she might have meant 5k rings. 3 of them. 1 for her, 1 for him and 1 for whomsoever they are going to adulterate with.

It's silly because the rain if a dowry (where the act of giving jewelry is hailing from) is as a financial back up for the (family of) the bride.

This got commercialized by de beers to become the most romantic tradition, but as a purchase you are just buying a bunch of shiny carbon that depreciates by 40% when you exit the store.

If that's your money worth, then be my guest.

No its quite simliarly shitty. It's just that you may care less. Though out of experience the richest people tend to be the stringiest folks around, out of habit trying to get everything for free.

This made me laugh pretty hard.

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Unless you're buying gold or land, both of which are great investments.

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Pricing models changed last month, and what was $500 is now like $15,000

There has been a lot of news of people hit with unexpected bills larger than that

Fair enough, I guess there are exceptions to every rule. I'm not here to judge people's life choices, but honestly you'd have to at least be pretty confident you'll spend the rest of your life with someone in order for sharing a bank account to be even remotely a good idea. Seems to have worked out for you and your wife though, so that's nice.

You were smart to save money on the ring. It's crazy that that's even viewed as a "cheap option", even though it's nearly $1000. But yeah, spending what could be a down payment on a house or a college fund for future children on a ring is a stupid societal norm that should be relegated to the past.

But seriously though, read up on moneymarket savings accounts (at least), as well as certified deposits and mutual funds (if you haven't already).

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